EXCLUSIVE: Don't be like Kournikova, Daley is 警告するd as British 星／主役にする finishes seventh

By Jonathan McEvoy for the Daily Mail Updated: 23:23 BST, 23 February 2012

Tom Daley was 警告するd he is in danger of becoming 飛び込み's Anna Kournikova after he and partner? Peter Waterfield finished a disappointing seventh at Thursday night's World Cup in London.

The stark 査定／評価 （機の）カム from British 業績／成果 director Alexei Evangulov, who only last week said he 恐れるd for Daley's Olympic chances because of the 負わせる of his マスコミ and 後援 work.

Blow: The British 飛び込み 二人組 of Daley and Waterfield could only manage seventh in the final

'It reminds me of the? 状況／情勢 in Russia with Kournikova,' said Evangulov, a former ロシアの 飛び込み 支持する／優勝者, cit ing the world's most famously photogenic tennis player.

'She looked pretty and made a 約束ing start to her career but the マスコミ （危険などに）さらす meant she never got to be the best. She is still in the celebrity news but she never 達成するd her 十分な 可能性のある.

In sync: The 二人組 改善するd on their morning showing but could only manage seventh in the final

長，率いる in 手渡すs: Daley was hoping to silence his critics with a メダル in Thursday night's final

'I am angry because nobody will listen to me. But you have seen T homas dive. He is perhaps the fifth best diver in the world.

'If he stopped all his マスコミ work now, I might be able to get him up to the third best diver.

'Even some of the coaches are thinking a 奇蹟 can happen, but there are no 奇蹟s in professional sport. 'I don't mind what he does if he gets the メダル. He can become a 激しく揺する 星／主役にする.'

From Russia with love: Kournikova failed to live up to her 可能性のある during her tennis career

Evangulov's 新たにするd attack on one of London 2012's poster boys （機の）カム as Daley was 直面するing the マスコミ in the bowels of the new Olympic Aquatics Centre, where he and Waterfield 得点する／非難する／２０d low 示すs in their important penultimate dive - the 今後 four-and-a-half somersault - to 落ちる from third to seventh.

中国's pairing of Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang predictably won gold,? with Mexico second and Germany third.

Daley, 17, was 用意が出来ている for questions about Evangulov's 初めの 批評, in which he said the Chinese work three times as hard.

Can't watch: But Daley 主張するs his mind is 焦点（を合わせる）d on the Games にもかかわらず his マスコミ work

He said: 'I know I've been putting in all the hours I can, all the training without my 団体／死体 breaking. 明白に the 準備s 港／避難所't been 広大な／多数の／重要な.

'My thumb was 負傷させるd in December and through to January. Pete has had a few problems, too. It's just one of those things.'

As a 調印する of his かかわり合い to his sport, Daley is thought likely to 取り消す his 外見 at Madame Tussauds next week, when his waxwork will be 明かすd.

飛行機で行くing high: The British pair 非難するd 傷害 後退s on their seventh-placed finish on Thursday night

Sportsmail understands that he will 請け負う one sponsor 外見 for adidas on Tuesday but has no more than a couple of other マスコミ events in his diary between now and the Olympics. Daley （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to be unfazed by the 期待s that will 落ちる on him this summer.

'The things I do, I make sure I'm having fun,' he said. '飛び込み for me is something I love doing and it's the same for Pete. We don't do it for any other 推論する／理由.'

Waterfield, 30, stood by his partner, 説: 'We didn't 行方不明になる out because Tom was doing too much マスコミ. We 行方不明になるd the dives because of 傷害 後退s.'